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April 30, 2013

This week on CACOPHONY the LostMessiah looks back 20 years to his first "official" show on Saturday night, 1st May 1993. Whilst the original playlist has been lost in time, it was an era when Thrash was on the decline and metal was diverging to Hardcore/Alternative/Grunge one way and Death the other. Cassettes were still more common/popular than CDs and were traded within the metal underground and copied ad-nauseum [ just in case you thought "Piracy" was a new thing... ]

There was no internet as we know it and stores like Echo Records on High St and Grunt Records in the ACE T-Shirts shop were starting to import new metal that we'd only ever read about in magazines. RDU was still broadcasting on 98.3FM and 50% of a CACOPHONY show was phone in requests, which meant hosts had to search through a sports bag crammed full of CDs.

I have selected 20+ tracks from albums released in 1993, there are debuts from now long established bands, last albums from bands and bands that are still playing in 2013.

NEW bands, that hadn't even released albums, were being formed such as;

April 25, 2013

On House Of Noizz this week we open with a nod to Anzac Day, then kick into a bunch of new releases. Mandatory Manowar has us spinning one of their biggest 'hits', and Brendon tells a story about bums. Not those kinds of bums you dirty little bastards!

April 24, 2013

Today (25th April) I commemorate the landing 98 years ago of the Australia/New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACS) on the beaches of Gallipoli in the Dardenelles & all the fallen in other foreign wars from NZ.
Plus I pay tribute to those who served and returned with two hours of music celebrating the ANZACS........

April 16, 2013

Featuring this week on CACOPHONY, Death in it's many forms, with Soilwork, Phil Anselmo, Warbeast, Sanity Obscure, Vader, Frankenbok and Revocation. NZ Metal from Bulletbelt, Metaltower, Legacy of Disorder and Gunt to name just a few...

April 02, 2013

This week on CACOPHONY "Black is the NEW Metal" and as such I feature
NEW Black Metal from Woe [USA] and The Meads Of Aspodel [UK], Ziege
Schwanze [CANADA] and Bulletbelt [NZ]. I have requests for Darkthrone
and Koldbrann, plus heaps of Metal from recently released albums.